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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nick Keart is a small Syrian, a "bookie" at the racetrack. His career has been interrupted by a sentence to the Washington, D. C.. jail. Well does he know Rancocas stable and its fast horses-Zev, Mei Foo, Greylag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: No. 10,520 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

None of the 28 deputies noticed that the old Poldavian name of Lamidaeff might read "I'Ami d'A. F."-"the friend of A. F.," "the friend of L'Action Française" famed royalist newspaper of which the editor is Leon Daudet, bon vivant, practical jokester, son of famed Author Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon), exile from the republic he has so consistently lampooned (TIME, June 13, 1927, et seq.). Three days after the 28 gullible deputies replied to the "Poldavian Minister," a special edition of L'Action Française appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Poldavia's Lamidaeff | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...this house ever catched on fire, the first one I'd rush in and save is you, Ma. . . . Ma, can I have a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: National Figure | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Last week the identical little cream-colored biplane with a Wasp engine in its nose taxied out upon the field of the naval air station at Washington, D. C. Forty gallons of gasoline were in its tank. In the cockpit was no Icarus. Instead was an Apollo wearing no triple woolen under wear ? merely ordinary clothing cased ty a furlined flying suit, sheepskin boots, fur helmet, fur mittens, a mask with an oxy gen tube (his nostrils were plugged so that he must breathe through his mouth) and a pair of goggles with tiny holes in them so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honolulu Liners? | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

High jump-Won by G. W. Kuehn '32, 5 ft. i in.; second, tie between D. A. Herman '32 and Blackman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Prepares for Impending Yale Clash by Narrow Victory Over Green | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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